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Abstract
The factors affecting an organism can be divided into two general classes, abiotic and biotic. Abiotic factors include features of the physical and chemical environment, such as climate, water movement, and many aspects of water quality. Biotic factors refer to those involving living organisms and their interactions, such as the organisms and processes in a food web. We also distinguish between dynamic and stationary abiotic factors. Stationary abiotic factors are fixed in the environment and include things like landscape features (e.g., bays, channels, and surface elevations) that change relatively slowly over time. Dynamic abiotic factors vary over time and space at various scales ranging from sub-daily (e.g., tidal direction and velocity) to annually (e.g., total water inflow and outflow).
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| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Dynamic abiotic habitat |
| Year Published | 2022 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | California Department of Water Resources |
| Contributing office(s) | California Water Science Center |
| Description | 45 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Report |
| Larger Work Subtype | State or Local Government Series |
| Larger Work Title | IEP technical report #98: White papers providing a synthesis of knowledge relating to Delta Smelt biology in the San Francisco Estuary, emphasizing effects of flow |
| First page | 10 |
| Last page | 54 |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| Other Geospatial | San Francisco Estuary |
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